17 July 2019

Barrick Gold Corporation president and chief executive officer Mark Bristow says the company is hopeful that a successful resolution will be found with the Zambian government on the 2019 mining fiscal regime. And Bristow says Barrick feels encouraged that Zambia’s fiscal outlook may improve with newly-appointed Finance Minister Dr Bwalya Ng’andu. Meanwhile, Bristow has refuted...

Alliance for Community Action executive director Laura Miti says the PF government should lose President Edgar Lungu because he has failed and he responds to important national issues like a child on a playground. And Miti says President Lungu is trying to write the Constitution in a way that he can get away with dictatorship...

Nalikwanda UPND member of parliament Geoffrey Lungwanga yesterday narrated to the Lusaka High Court how he was beaten and physically manhandled by MMD youths in 2016, in full view of the party president Nevers Mumba. Lungwanga testified that the ordeal happened at Mika Convention Centre where the MMD National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting was being...

Newly appointed Finance Minister Dr Bwalya Ng’andu says there is need for government to narrow the gap between the austerity measures announced and the action taken. Speaking when he held his first senior management visioning meeting with his staff at the Ministry in Lusaka, Tuesday, Dr Ng’andu said Zambia's challenge is that in the past...

Canadian-based Zambian Lawyer Elias Munshya has questioned President Edgar Lungu’s appointment of a team of members of parliament to be part of the negotiating team in the sale of KCM. Munshya has wondered how members of parliament, who are members of the Legislature, can be asked to perform Executive functions. On Monday, President Lungu appointed...

NAREP president Elias Chipimo has warned that the chaotic takeover of Konkola Copper Mines and the planned sale of the mine will have serious legal implications on Zambia because Vedanta will have a strong case against government after the case has settled. Responding to a press query, Chipimo who is a respected Lusaka-based lawyer, noted...

Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says the Registrar of Societies has commenced the process of cancellation for 500 registered societies that have not been remitting annual returns. And Kampyongo said two out of the 12 political parties that were recently deregistered have appealed and their applications are being processed by his ministry. Meanwhile, Kampyongo told...

Lusaka High Court Judge Getrude Chawatama has sentenced a 28-year-old woman of Lusaka’s Matero township to death by hanging for killing two of her children by poisoning them using Doom insecticide. Miriam Mulenga poisoned her three children in January 2017, but one of them survived. She also consumed the same substance and was admitted to...

Former vice-president Nevers Mumba says Zambia international image can only be restored when government strengthens its commitment to the fight against corruption. In an interview, Mumba, who is also MMD faction president, said government should publicly tell the people progress made in investigating or prosecuting certain corruption cases. "First of all once we had the...